Malicious Office (OLE) / .XLS — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a17e27d435c0041c…

MALICIOUS

Office (OLE) / .XLS

569.0 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 Authoring application: Microsoft Excel First seen: 2022-11-16
MD5: a46ff49cdb4ff73cebc9ab9ee3f47584 SHA-1: bf0a2ced819282e695e22c049bd5a247221ee644 SHA-256: a17e27d435c0041c4f7e427acd2de56eb723a1961b2cf5bc71a914f72f9cf41e
108 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE indicates the exploitation of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Equation Editor. The presence of an OLE object containing this exploit payload strongly suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. No VBA macros were found to be executable, and the document body was unreadable, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 3

  • Equation Editor Ole10Native payload — CVE-2017-11882 critical CVE likely CVE_2017_11882_EQUATION_OLE10NATIVE
    An embedded Microsoft Equation 3.0 object (CLSID 0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046) carries an Ole10Native packager stream instead of the normal Equation Native/MTEF data. This is the weaponized Equation Editor RCE delivery shape used by CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 maldocs. The payload (font-record overflow + shellcode) is frequently encrypted and the stream name case-scrambled to evade scanners, but an Equation object holding an Ole10Native stream has no benign use.
  • Equation Editor OLE object high CVE related OLE_EQUATION_EDITOR
    Contains Equation Editor object — related to CVE-2017-11882 / CVE-2018-0802 exploitation, but CLSID presence alone is not the malformed MTEF exploit primitive.
  • VBA project contains no executable statements low OLE_VBA_MACROS
    Document contains a VBA project, but extracted modules only contain attributes/options/comments and no executable statements.

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
macros.bas
7f506327609c082af1cd37dde23bc2c71a000f7d1ef530b6abb66775040a7673		 vba-macro oletools.olevba.extract_macros (decoded VBA source) 1206 bytes
ole10native_00.bin
ccd4310fa7cb2e8c81eece11f9fdcf75927308024e651b4f20bcd5a9d1b95d81		 ole-package OLE Ole10Native stream: MBD002E7A89/oLe10NATIvE 1749 bytes

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